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  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW
    THE TURN OF THE SCREW
    HENRY JAMES
    A new edition of a Gothic novella which has inspired many horror and psychological thrillers since its publication. This new edition of The Turn of the Screw offers students the definitive text and extensive appendices. An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and dee...
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  • MONDAYS ARE MURDER
    MONDAYS ARE MURDER
    RAVENA GURON
    From the bestselling author of This Book Kills comes a deadly new YA thriller of murder, mystery and mind-blowing twists. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen M. McManus.Seventeen-year-old Kay left her sleepy hometown after the devastating death of her friend, Ivy. But when Kay is forced to come back, she receives an anonymous letter that turns her life upside down. The ...
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  • EVERY DARK DESIRE
    EVERY DARK DESIRE
    FIONA ZEDDE
    Naomi lives an almost idyllic life in Jamaica. She has a daughter who adores her, a close-knit community that looks out for its own, and paradise as her playground. But she secretly longs for the touch of other women. It is a longing she finally gets to satisfy during a trip into the tourist heart of Jamaica. When she surrenders to the seduction of a compelling stranger, howeve...
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  • I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    MAYA ANGELOU
    Maya Angelou's phenomenal seven volume autobiography is now available on the Virago Modern Classics list.[Bokinfo]. ...
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    13,75 €

  • THERE IS A BIRD ON YOUR HEAD!
    THERE IS A BIRD ON YOUR HEAD!
    MO WILLEMS
    Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In There's a Bird on Your Head! Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head - two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend? Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of fa...
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  • THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
    THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
    ARISTOTLE
    'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that con...
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  • THE KING IN YELLOW
    THE KING IN YELLOW
    ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
    With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked b...
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  • SPECTACULAR: A CARAVAL NOVELLA FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER STEPHANIE GARBER
    SPECTACULAR: A CARAVAL NOVELLA FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER STEPHANIE GARBER
    STEPHANIE GARBER
    Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber ushers us back into the world of the Caraval series in this festive treat that is perfect for the holiday season.[Bokinfo]. ...
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    18,75 €

  • STRANGE NEW WORLD
    STRANGE NEW WORLD
    VIVIAN SHAW
    'Vivian Shaw knocks it out of the park yet again. If you aren't reading Dr Greta Helsing, you're missing out' T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author Strange New World finds Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, facing the strangest challenge of her career . . . accompanying an anxious angel and a sullen demon on a road trip across America in the clever conclusion to t...
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    13,75 €

  • JUNIPER AND THORN
    JUNIPER AND THORN
    AVA REID
    ''A tale of fear and survival, hope and yearning and defiance, in timelessly elegant prose. It will enchant you, break your heart, and chill you to the very marrow.' Samantha Shannon on The Wolf and the Woodsman From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wolf and the Woodsman comes a gothic retelling of The Juniper Tree, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity ...
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  • THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
    THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
    FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
    Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influentialNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends fr...
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  • VOYAGER
    VOYAGER
    DIANA GABALDON
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series."Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer."—Publishers Weekly In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with t...
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  • THE ESSEX SERPENT
    THE ESSEX SERPENT
    SARAH PERRY
    London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge. On arrival, rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming ...
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    12,50 €

  • HOW DO DINOSAURS GET WELL SOON?
    HOW DO DINOSAURS GET WELL SOON?
    JANE YOLEN
    A playful peek into the homes of poorly dinosaurs 'What if a dinosaur catches the flu? Does he whimper and whine in between each Atchoo?' Most certainly not! Dinosaurs get lots of juice and rest . They use hankies, take their medicine and are well-behaved at the doctor's! Brimming with humour and familiar antics, here is a playful peek into the homes of poorly dinosaur chil...
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    8,75 €

  • MODERN SPAIN, 1875-1980
    MODERN SPAIN, 1875-1980
    RAYMOND CARR
    Starting at the `September Revolution' of 1868 and going up to 1980, Raymond Carr explains much of modern Spanish history - often a strange mixture of advanced liberal politics imposed upon a conservative society. ...
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    18,75 €

  • LEOPARD'S RAGE
    LEOPARD'S RAGE
    CHRISTINE FEEHAN
    Discover a dizzying world of desire and an exotic, sensual race: the Leopard People. Leopard shifter Sevastyan Amurov has an anger inside of him that burns so hot it's almost impossible to control. His barely leashed rage relentlessly threatens to break free, until he meets a woman who soothes his restless soul. Sevastyan wants Flambe Carver with every breath. He's determined t...
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  • THE LADY BANDIT
    THE LADY BANDIT
    EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain - sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining. But if you decide to visit, be...
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    7,50 €

  • SHADOW TICKET
    SHADOW TICKET
    THOMAS PYNCHON
    Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine ca...
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  • THE BROMELIAD TRILOGY
    THE BROMELIAD TRILOGY
    TERRY PRATCHETT
    All three instalments of the amazing Bromeliad trilogy available again in one very special edition. To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store, there is no Outside. No Day or Night, no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until they hear the devastating news that the Store is to be demolished...And so, their journey begins.Fro...
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    21,25 €

  • THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
    THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
    FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA / DAVID HARE
    'Better never to lay eyes on a man, never to have seen one. Ever since I was a child, I've been frightened: the look of men, yoking up the oxen, picking up sacks of wheat, calling to each other, their thick voices, their thick boots. Every time I passed, fear of their hands, of their touch. God made me weak and ugly. It's his way of keeping them away.' So pronounces one of five...
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  • OAXACAN CERAMICS
    OAXACAN CERAMICS
    LOIS WASSERSPRING
    Prized by collectors worldwide, Oaxacan crafts are among the most popular forms of folk art today. This celebration of Mexican ceramics combines a gallery of more than one hundred stunning photographs with an insightful text that illuminates the artistry and the artists--all of whom are women. The fanciful, brightly colored works spring from the rich imaginations of rural women...
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  • OUT OF EGYPT
    OUT OF EGYPT
    ANDRÉ ACIMAN
    Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from its arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its forced departure three generations later. Aciman tells a story of childhood innocence, of intricate family life and the pain of exile from a place one loves. Elegant, beautifully-written, mo...
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  • EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
    EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
    DANIEL GOLEMAN
    "Counter Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until the discoveries of modern brain researchers, theorists could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's fascinating report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers us startling new insight into our "two minds" -- the rational and the emotional -- and how they together shape ou...
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  • THE RED PRINCE
    THE RED PRINCE
    TIMOTHY SNYDER
    In this exhilarating narrative, prize-winning historian Snyder offers an indelible portrait of Wilhelm von Habsburg whose life personifies the wrenching upheavals of the first half of the 20th century, as the rule of empire gave way to the new politics of nationalism. 20 b&w photos and maps. ...
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  • THE FIELDS OF DEATH
    THE FIELDS OF DEATH
    SIMON SCARROW
    THE FIELDS OF DEATH is the epic final novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell.1809. Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have made their mark as military commanders. Lifelong enemies, they both believe their armies are strong enough to destroy any rival. But in war victory can never be ce...
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  • MCGLUE
    MCGLUE
    OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
    Discover the blistering first novella from the from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. They said I've done something wrong?... And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had a drop in days more so... Salem, Massachusetts, 1851- McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation - he may h...
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  • MORE THAN I LOVE MY LIFE
    MORE THAN I LOVE MY LIFE
    DAVID GROSSMAN
    An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: th...
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  • DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
    DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
    C. G. DREWS
    When Andrew returns to boarding school, he can't wait to find refuge in the twisted fairy tales he writes for Thomas - the boy with hair like autumn leaves. But Thomas' parents have vanished, and he has blood on his sleeve. Stranger still, Thomas won't talk to Andrew, even though he's always loved sketching the monstrous creatures from Andrew's stories. Desperate to uncover the...
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  • THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF LESBIAN EROTICA
    THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF LESBIAN EROTICA
    BARBARA CARDY
    Short tales of passion and lust from the pens of today's most exciting writers of lesbian erotica This all-new volume of lesbian erotica brings together a dazzling selection of new fiction from around the world. Here are 50 short stories from a still growing genre, most of which have been specially commissioned.The writing covers the emotional spectrum, from intimate reminiscen...
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  • ELANTRIS
    ELANTRIS
    BRANDON SANDERSON
    To mark its 20th anniversary, Brandon Sanderon's debut novel is now available in hardback for the very first time! Elantris was built on magic - and it thrived. But when that magic began to fade, the city began to decay. Now its shattered citizens face domination by a powerful Imperium motivated by entrenched religious views, and all hope is lost. Or so the people think. But...
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